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ill". I'eal)0(lv: Do you havo tlic l)rook trout in the same 

 stroaiiis with the rain))0w trout? 



A. Xot naturally so. We have streams that used to he 

 stocked with l)rook trout, hut tliey are ])retty well extinct now. 



{}. Do they thrive togvther, with you? 



A. T think- they would, except that l)rook trout, of course, 

 have moi-e of tlie wild nature. 



Dr. Birge: Has it l)een our experience. General Bryant, in 

 Wisconsin, that the In-ook trout and rainhow trout would thrive 

 in the same stream ? 



The President: They have heen ])lanted in the same stream, 

 hut I think the rainhow trout drift down to the larger streams 

 and the hrook trout work up toward the springs. That has heen 

 our e.x]X'rience. Our large rainhows are caught in the larger 

 streams like the Willow River. 



]\rr. Seagie : That has l)een our experience also. The hrook 

 trout seek the upper waters or the colder part of the stream — 

 clear waters. They do not thrive so well in muddy streams. 

 Of course I do not mean to say that muddy streams are suital>le 

 for any kind of trout. 



jMr. Clark: Speaking of the Ijrook and rainl)0w trout inliah- 

 iting the same stream; there prohal)ly is not a hetter example 

 of it than the Au Sahle River in Michigan. Brook trout and 

 rainhow trout are hoth thoroughly estahlished in that stream. 

 Of course, as you are all well aware, it was formerly the leading 

 gi-ayliug stream in that res])ect in the Ignited States, hut now 

 they are nearly all gone. On the Au Sahle are found the rain- 

 how trout, and more especially the larger ones, in below the l)rook 

 ti'oul ; hut where ])rook trout fishing is good rainl)Ows will l)e 

 taken, hut they are of the smaller size. The fry of the rain- 

 bow trout and brook trout (I am speaking of fry until say July 

 and sometimes later) are found together — I think as late as 

 Octohcf, when we were catching parent fish there. We have 

 taken i)n)hahly as many rainbow trout fry as we did hrook 

 trout fiT, with tlie net; so proving that tliey were right together. 

 It has thcrd'ore occurred to me that the larger rainl)Ow trout go 

 down hch)\v simply l)ecause they are larger. 1 have seen these 

 largx' i-ainhow trout in the spring of the year wdien they were 



